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The Wentworth and Holles Families: Dreaming of the Living and the Dead

The Wentworth and Holles Families: Dreaming of the Living and the Dead The Louis L. Martz Lecture South~Central Renaissance Conference Hot Springs, Arkansas March 6, 2009 Carole Levin In sixteenth and seventeenth century England, people took their dreams very seriously. Just as today, people dreamed of famous people, they dreamed of members of their own families, and they suffered anxiety dreams. Because dreams were taken so seriously, dreams were also constructed, often in religious or political pamphlets, to provide authority to a point of view. Dreams were understood in a wide variety of ways in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Mare Vulson in The Court oi Cunosite no ted that the rules about dreaming were not general "and cannot satisfy all persons one way; but sometimes according to times and persons, they admit of various interpretations" (5). Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius defined a dream as "an inward act of the mind" while the body is sleeping (52). Thomas Tryon believed that dreaming was a higher state than waking: "Thus in Dreams the soul enjoys a more compleat and unmixed pleasure and delight, than is possible for any person to enjoy when awake" (59-60). The herbalist Nicholas Culpeper suggested that people's imaginations were always working, awake or asleep (4). When someone was http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Explorations in Renaissance Culture Brill

The Wentworth and Holles Families: Dreaming of the Living and the Dead

Explorations in Renaissance Culture , Volume 35 (2): 115 – Dec 2, 2009

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© Copyright 2009 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0098-2474
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The Louis L. Martz Lecture South~Central Renaissance Conference Hot Springs, Arkansas March 6, 2009 Carole Levin In sixteenth and seventeenth century England, people took their dreams very seriously. Just as today, people dreamed of famous people, they dreamed of members of their own families, and they suffered anxiety dreams. Because dreams were taken so seriously, dreams were also constructed, often in religious or political pamphlets, to provide authority to a point of view. Dreams were understood in a wide variety of ways in sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Mare Vulson in The Court oi Cunosite no ted that the rules about dreaming were not general "and cannot satisfy all persons one way; but sometimes according to times and persons, they admit of various interpretations" (5). Wilhelm Adolf Scribonius defined a dream as "an inward act of the mind" while the body is sleeping (52). Thomas Tryon believed that dreaming was a higher state than waking: "Thus in Dreams the soul enjoys a more compleat and unmixed pleasure and delight, than is possible for any person to enjoy when awake" (59-60). The herbalist Nicholas Culpeper suggested that people's imaginations were always working, awake or asleep (4). When someone was

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